Learning dynamics and endogenous currency crises

Macroeconomic Dynamics

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 257-285

  Cho, In Koo ^a   Kasa, Kenneth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Currency crises; Learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 39049124225     PISSN: 13651005     EISSN: 14698056     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1365100507070046     Document Type: Article

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